Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Walk, shall we Malaysians?

The last time I "walked" was in February last year, against some Aussie MPs who wanted Malaysia to stop the process of justice in this country. These MPs said the Saiful vs Anwar trial was a conspiracy, undemocratic, an injustice. Those who walked with us included KJ, the BN Youth chief, and Kamalanathan, who would go on to become an MP two months later, defeating PKR's giant Zaid Ibrahim in the battle for Hulu Selangor.

Not what the organisers of BERSIH have in mind. The political party PAS alone has committed 100,000 bodies for this pro-democracy, formerly apolitical walk.*

Khairy and Kamalanathan should join forces again and match BERSIH, body for body, stride for stride. Let us have a healthy, peaceful contest of who can bring more supporters, make more noise, and leave the least litter. In the name of democracy, let's walk together.

* (I took part in the Bersih walk of Nov 2007 against the Abdullah Ahmad Badawi administration (also known as the Yellow march because everyone wore yellow in the hope that the Agong would be with us in spirit), which saw 40,000 or so protesters according to some estimates, where we were told no politicians would be involved but at the end, of course, Anwar Ibrahim and Lim Kit Siang, among others, appeared out of nowhere to steal all the credit. It was the start of a campaign that would end with the March 2008 general election).

14 comments:

Hey, Bro, wouldn't it be nice to relive Nov 10 2007? Remember meeting up with me in Central Market after the FRU had started spraying the crowd in Jalan Tun Perak? From there I guess you might have then headed towards the Istana....well, when I was headed there bumped into you again near Klang Bus Station going the other way. We all felt good. I know that. ...Err..unless of course you were feigning of course.

In any case, why do you make it sound that 100,000 or even 200,000 people gathering on the streets of kuala Lumpur would not be peaceful? Isn't it true that only when the Perkasa/Pembela and UMNO blokes gather without police permits even that they become boisterous, threatening, want to start up a jihad maybe and do all of that? Whereas, in a Bersih rally we all actually hug and hands on each other's shoulder march together. You want to see real 1 Malaysia, that is where you see it, and not the manufactured type that you might be accustomed to. And you know what, when the PAS guys go "Allahu Akhbar", it is not even frightening.

It is clear that this former president of Blog House has sold out to the establishment in return for a nice cushy position in the MSM (Malaymail). Why should rocky not support democracy but inciting a "counter-walk" to show what? Anti-democracy march?

Just outsource this job to Perkasa surely can match up again Bersih 2.0 Forces. In 2008 everyone wanna get rid of Pak Lah administration. But Bersih 2.0 its all about everyone wanna get rid of corrupt and blatantly ignorent goverment.